Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

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When people talk about “the biggest spider,” they’re usually mixing two different records: the longest leg span and the heaviest body. A few species are genuine monsters on both counts. Others are ...

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025. Almost 200 new plants and fungi were named new to science ...

Scientists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava A zombie fungus that springs from a trapdoor and a flame-like shrub named after the fire ...

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, formally named 125 plants and 65 fungi in 2025, including a zombie fungus that parasitizes Brazilian spiders, a bloodstained orchid from Ecuador, and a ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2025. From "camouflaged" plants to ...

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025. View on euronews ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The new-to-science species include a parasitic fungus that turns Brazilian ...

The Trapdoor Spider in Grow a Garden is a collectible Pet available during the Smithing Event in November 2025. It was available as a Legendary-rarity Pet from the digging minigame while the event was ...

There are over 700 islands in the Caribbean Sea, formed by volcanic activity and tectonic shifts. Many diverse ecological regions are found throughout the region and across individual islands, ...

Arboreal taranulas in the Avicularia, Amazonias, Psalmopoeus, and Tapinauchenius genera rely on the Andes mountain forests in the northwest or the Amazon rainforests in the south. There are nearly 50 ...